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Winners celebrate on stage at the 2024 Great American Beer Festival. Don Tse Brewers Association, the trade association representing America’s small and independent breweries, annually organizes and hosts the Great American Beer Festival. The event this year was held in Denver, Colorado from October 9 to 12, 2025. On the final day of the festival, results of the largest beer competition in America, also dubbed the Great American Beer Festival, are announced. For the 2025 Great American Beer Festival, medals were awarded in 108 beer categories. Of those, seven new beer styles were awarded medals for the first time. Last year, medals were awarded in 102 beer styles; while beer styles are added from time-to-time, less popular ones are conversely sometimes retired. The categories, particularly the newly-added ones, are indicative of trends in craft beer. When a beer style is added as a category to the awards list, it indicates interest by brewers and consumers in the style, which may be a newly invented one, or an historic one enjoying revived popularity. The number of entries in the various categories are also seen as indicators of the waxing and waning of the popularity of beer styles. As usual, the number of entries in the numerous IPA variants remain popular. Category 107—Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale received 301 entries while Category 105—West Coast IPA received 300 entries. And continuing a trend of recent years, lighter styles of lager were also very popular. Category 51—Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest received 186 entries while Category 47—German-Style Pilsner received 84 entries. Medals are also awarded in six categories of cider. Also breweries of various sizes are awarded Brewery of the Year and a cidery is awarded Cidermaker of the Year. The standard for medals is so high, that in some categories, a medal might…

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